Monty Don's Rhineland Gardens is a 3 part series featuring our favourite TV Gardener Monty Don that was first shown in BBC2 on Friday 16 January 2026.
The series, shown over the 3 episodes sees Monty Don travelling along the Rhine visiting a total of 4 Countries.
This hour long programme starts in the Switzerland and he ends his journey in the Netherlands.
Strangely this programme cuts into the screening of Gardeners' World Compilations 2026 which has only been aired for 1 episode in the Friday night 8 pm slot before this series started.
Maybe the over run of Gardeners' world 2025 due to episodes being cancelled has affected the programming for these 2 series.
This series is also going head to head with The Traitors on BBC1 in the schedule!
Last year Monty Don excelled in his journey around Great Britain in his series Monty Don's British Gardens.
There was so many gardens added to my personal list of gardens to visit as well as a new look at some already firm favourites that made this series so special.
This series Monty visits 4 different countries following the course of the Rhine River and visiting gardens along its path before it makes its way into the North Sea.
Episode 1
Monty Don starts his journey in Switzerland with unsurprisingly an Alpine Garden before moving on to Austria and a trip to Lake Constance.
He finishes programme 1 in Germany side of Lake Constance to visit a Island Garden.
Episode 2
Monty Don in Germany for this episode, visiting City gardens and Castles as he follows the Rhine.
Monty sees dramatic landscape and also bleak industrial landscape and visits a park created from a disused warehouse.
Episode 3
Monty Don now in the Netherland where the Rhine splits into several waterways on its way to the North Sea.
Monty looks at how important the Rhine is to the Dutch and of course there are Tulips and a visit to a Flower Market.
I am looking forward to a bit of gardening escapism at this bleak time of year and the programming of these Monty Specials are always a welcome relief.
As usual the very well travelled Monty Hat will put in lots of appearances, would we expect anything less!
All Photographs copyright of BBC.com
No comments:
Post a Comment